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The setup:
I am a new administrator of a small network. There are 2 computers on this
network - a Windows XP Home machine (call it XPHOME) and a Windows 2000
machine (call it WIN2K). WIN2K has a USB printer attached to it, and is
shared on the network. XPHOME is the most used machine.
The problem:
On XPHOME, the regular user account (limited account, no group policies that
I am aware of) can print to the printer on WIN2K. I have witnessed this.
The Administrator account that I use all the time (not the built-in one, but
another one) cannot. I believe this is because it is sending the print
request from the Guest account (which has been disabled, by the way). I read
somewhere that the Guest account does not have permissions to open the
printer ports on WIN2K. I have found that if I print from XPHOME (using the
Administrator account) and print a blank page on WIN2K (to open the printer
port), the printer will print out the XPHOME document but not the blank page.
I believe I only have to do this once per session.
The question:
Is there any way to change things so that XPHOME can open the printer port
on WIN2K without WIN2K first having to do a print itself? It's rather
frustrating. I really do not want to move the printer to XPHOME due to space
issues.
Thanks in advance!
~Timothy
I am a new administrator of a small network. There are 2 computers on this
network - a Windows XP Home machine (call it XPHOME) and a Windows 2000
machine (call it WIN2K). WIN2K has a USB printer attached to it, and is
shared on the network. XPHOME is the most used machine.
The problem:
On XPHOME, the regular user account (limited account, no group policies that
I am aware of) can print to the printer on WIN2K. I have witnessed this.
The Administrator account that I use all the time (not the built-in one, but
another one) cannot. I believe this is because it is sending the print
request from the Guest account (which has been disabled, by the way). I read
somewhere that the Guest account does not have permissions to open the
printer ports on WIN2K. I have found that if I print from XPHOME (using the
Administrator account) and print a blank page on WIN2K (to open the printer
port), the printer will print out the XPHOME document but not the blank page.
I believe I only have to do this once per session.
The question:
Is there any way to change things so that XPHOME can open the printer port
on WIN2K without WIN2K first having to do a print itself? It's rather
frustrating. I really do not want to move the printer to XPHOME due to space
issues.
Thanks in advance!
~Timothy